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LOT 0344
Bronze Age Gold Spiral Hair Ring
CIRCA 1000 B.C.
5/8 in. (17.2 grams, 17 mm).
Formed as an ellipsoid-section tapering rod with the ends flattened.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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European Pottery Vessel Group
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Bronze Age Copper Flat Axe
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Formed with a rounded butt and slightly flared cutting edge; flat in cross-section. 226 grams, 12.5 cm
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Bronze Age Double Spiral Ring
10th-11th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Formed from a single length of rod; median hoop of four coils developing at each end to a perpendicular coiled plaque. 24.94 grams, 72.00 mm overall, 17.40 mm internal diameter (approximate size British N, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.72, Japan 13)
Acquired in Vienna, Austria, in 2001. In Switzerland before 2005. Property of a London gentleman.
